Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.

女人是用來愛的,不是用來了解的。

One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that, would tell one anything.

絕不要相信一個透露自己真實年齡的女人。如果一個女人肯說出自己的真實年齡,那麽她什麽都說得出來。

Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones.

哭泣可以庇護平常女人,卻能毀掉漂亮女人。

A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction.

男人的臉是自傳,女人的臉是小說。

There is one thing infinitely more pathetic than to have lost the woman one is in love with, and that is to have won her and found out how shallow she is.

有件事比失去自己心愛的女人更悲慘,那就是:得到她,然後意識到她有多麽膚淺。

Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.

女人絕不會因為受到恭維就放下戒心,但吹捧一個男人卻總會令他繳械投降。這就是性別差異。

The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.

女人改造男人的唯一方式就是令男人厭倦到對生活徹底失去興趣。

Women give to men the very gold of their lives. But they invariably want it back in small change.

女人把生命中最好的東西給了男人——但她們總是一點一點地再把這些東西要回去。

Women, as some witty Frenchman once put it, inspire us with the desire to do masterpieces, and always prevent us from carrying them out.

正如某位機智的法國人所言,是女人讓我們燃起成就大事業的欲望,但阻止我們付諸現實的也是她們。

Wicked women bother one. Good women bore one. That is the only difference between them.

壞女人令人麻煩,好女人令人厭煩。這是她們之間唯一的區別。

There is only one real tragedy in a woman’s life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband.

女人的生命中隻有一個真正的悲劇:她的過去總像情人一般值得緬懷,她的未來總像丈夫一般無法避免。

If a woman can’t make her mistakes charming, she is only a female.

如果一個女人不能把自己的錯誤變得迷人,那她就隻是一個雌性動物。

I delight in men over seventy, they always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.

七十歲以上的男人對我胃口,隻有這把年齡的男人才能做到至死不渝。

A man who moralizes is usually a hypocrite, and a woman who moralizes is invariably plain.

愛說教的男人往往道貌岸然,愛說教的女人一定姿色平庸。

Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.

應該對富裕的單身漢狠狠征稅。他們竟比其他人快活那麽多,這實在太不公平了。

Men are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not.

當男人是好丈夫時,他們無趣得可怕;當他們不是好丈夫時,他們自負得可憎。

I like men who have a future and women who have a past.

我喜歡有未來的男人和有過去的女人。